From the forties to the seventies, Robert H. Steinmeyer was Missouri’s premier chess player. His domination in that period is awesome. Born in St. Louis in 1927, Steinmeyer took to chess at an early age: he won the Missouri State Open Championship in 1942, shortly after his 15th birthday. Shortly after turning 18, he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Army, catching the end of WW II. In 1946, on furlough, he again won the State Championship. After his discharge, he enrolled in and graduated [1951] from Washington University . Until the late eighties, the St. Louis District Championship was the most important St. Louis chess event: it was an invitational round robin to which the area’s strongest players [usually 8] were invited. Since games were played once a week and re-scheduling possible, the area’s top players would usually accept invitations and compete. Steinmeyer won this championship in 1944,’45, ’47, ’48, ’49,’50, ’51, ’53, ’60 and ’61, an unparalleled series of triumphs. Invited to the U.S. Closed Championship frequently, he played in at least three [1962-3-4], competing against the likes of Evans [whom he beat] , Benko, Bisguier, R. Byrne [he drew all of these] as well as Reshevsky, Fischer, Denker, Rossolimo and other titans of that era. While his results in the U.S. Championships were less than spectacular, he’s the only Missourian ever invited to the U.S. [closed] Championship. Steinmeyer participated in many other strong tourneys in the ’50’s & ’60’s, winning, among others, the Southwest Open [a strong tournament then held annually in Texas] in 1951 & 1953 and finishing 2nd to H. Steiner in 1952. His bio appeared in all the Who’s Who in America volumes published in the ’70’s.

Achieving the title of Senior Master early, he maintained his rating over 2400 during the sixties and early seventies. Steinmeyer was of course one of the original complement of Life Masters identified when the USCF created that title. Except for his Army stint, Steinmeyer lived all of his life in St. Louis, working most of the time for commercial barge lines including Valley Lines & National Marine Services, Inc. He never married. During the mid/late ’70’s he withdrew from active chess completely. Besides his chess memberships, he was a member of the American Contract Bridge League and the St. Louis Opera Guild. He died in October 1988 at age 61 and is buried in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.

Quite an interesting read (it's a rare animal in English), as most of the German speaking population does not know von Uexküll (sadly anymore), nor his specific definition given in the English wiki entry - however the German site is structured very different.

All that said, within the German speaking population 'Umwelt' lowkey might have been one of the more (mis-)used words in all our modern political landscape, where it gained quite a stardom (1900-2010, you can have a guess what lead to its downfall the last century though).

https://books.google.com/ngrams for Umwelt (German)

While others are very lucky for the possibility to debate the sheer sanity of their present leaders nonstop, we might face a similar faith - even our first 'Umweltkanzler' in 2021. Glück auf.

Contrast
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umwelt

Robert 'Bob' Steinmeyer 1960 (independently the article is a good catch too)

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